Marque Richardson

Personal context

Summary

Marque Richardson is an actor known for playing Reggie in Dear white People and for roles in The Newsroom, True Blood, and UnPrisoned. He has said that Dear white People made him see that art can and should be activism, and that he gravitates toward projects with a perspective. He and colleagues helped establish a scholarship honoring Jordan Edwards, who was killed by a police officer; Richardson later joined the Juvenile Law Center’s board and said he would advocate for young people in the child welfare and justice systems. No public partisan campaigning is on record.